Chapter One Flashcards

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Experimental Research

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Where a hypothesis is scientifically tested.

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Cognitive Psychologist

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Someone who studies mental processes (attention, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity and thinking)

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One of the “founding fathers of psychotherapy” was…
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Carl Rogers (1902-1987)

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Who argued that human behavior is acted upon one’s sense of self or “self-concept” (Humanistic approach)?

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Carl Rogers

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Carl Rogers helped form…

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Many parts of Psychotherapy: Client-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, and Existential therapy.

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Clinical Psychologist studies what?

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Mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.

Ex. Learning disabilities, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.

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Roger Sperry

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(1913-1994)

Known for split brain research.

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Humanism

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Based off of Unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth.

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Humanistic Psychology

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Study of the whole person

“Eyes of the one doing the behaving.”

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Empiricism

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All knowledge should be gained by observations

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Psychiatry

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Study of mental illnesses, emotional disturbances, and abnormal behavior.

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Psychiatrist

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Someone who studies mental illnesses, emotional disturbances, and abnormal behavior.

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Introspection

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Self observation one’s conscious self

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B. F. Skinner

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Psychologist, free will is an illusion, environmental

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Empiricism

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All knowledge should be acquired by observation

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Psychiatry

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Branch of medicine // study of mental illnesses, emotional disturbances, and abnormal behavior.

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Industrial and organizational psychology

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Running Human Resource departments to improve things

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Psychoanalysis

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Attempts to explain personality, motivations, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior.